gli indiani evacuati dal libano

[stuart mill]

300 Indians evacuated from Lebanon
[ 21 Jul, 2006 0030hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
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NEW DELHI: Launching Operation Sukoon on Thursday noon, India finally began evacuating the first lot of its nationals from war-torn Lebanon, with around 300 people boarding destroyer INS Mumbai.

Though there were 700 Indian nationals, "some" Nepali and Sri Lankan nationals waiting at Beirut port, only 300 could be accommodated on the warship.

INS Mumbai, which set sail from Beirut on Thursday evening, will reach Larnaca in Cyprus by early Friday morning, from where the evacuees will be "air-lifted" on two special Air India Boeing 747-400 planes on Friday.

The second lot of evacuees, in turn, will be "sea-lifted" in the eight-hour shuttle to Larnaca by guided missile frigate INS Brahmaputra, which will dock in Beirut on Friday morning.

At present, INS Brahmaputra, INS Betwa and INS Shakti are anchored outside the 60-square-mile exclusion zone enforced by Israeli forces along the Lebanese coast.

"The warships, one after the other, will go into the overcrowded Beirut harbour to bring people out, in consultation with Israeli authorities enforcing the blockade,"said an official.

The evacuation of an estimated 12,000 Indians in Lebanon could have begun much earlier, even before the Western countries, if the authorities had woken up in time.

The Navy had apparently asked the government last week, after Israeli forces began their attacks on Lebanon, whether its four warships on an overseas deployment to eastern Mediterranean were required in Beirut on an evacuation mission.

But the force was apparently told not to alter the course of its ships transiting down the Suez Canal. Then on Monday, after a meeting chaired by the cabinet secretary, the government asked the warships to turn around and head for Beirut.

The four ships together can carry a total of 1,000 people in "one wave".

"We don't want to put more than one ship alongside at any given time because the period of time the ships are alongside reflects their larger risk factors (in the battle-zone),"said Rear Admiral Pradeep Chauhan.

External affairs ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna, said, "The Indian embassy in Beirut continues to receive requests for evacuation from Indian nationals and is processing them in consultation with the local authorities. The evacuation will continue in the coming days as required."

Meanwhile, of the three Indians injured in Israeli bombing of the Maliban glass factory in Bekaa Valley on Tuesday, one is being taken to Beirut to join the sea-lift.

"The other two are in hospital and are expected to leave via Damascus in the next three-four days," said Sarna.

[agaragar]

kep@@lle kò sti indiani

[LELEfantino]

kep@@lle kò sti indiani

che ci hai contro gli indiani dell'India ?

[stuart mill]

che ci hai contro gli indiani dell'India ?

lui +è filo cinese, sai, gli indù sono vegetariani, e i cinesi mangiano i feti umani, piccola differenza

[audace12]

E i 200 morti 2 i mille feriti di 2 settimane fa in piena Bombay?Chi li ha causati,i sionisti?Sei un'ipocrita Stuart

[stuart mill]

E i 200 morti 2 i mille feriti di 2 settimane fa in piena Bombay?Chi li ha causati,i sionisti?Sei un'ipocrita Stuart

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